Circe

By Madeline Miller

Bold action and bold manner are not the same.

  

  I read this as a sort of pallet cleanser in-between two more challenging or in depth stories, and it served its purpose for sure! Another greek mythology ready, but more mythology-y than than its other siblings The Song of Achilles.  I have to say I was inspired to read is because I'd been listing to the Epic Musical and this book had some of those characters in this book, so fun cross-over there. 

I enjoyed this read but the whole time thought I felt like I was still waiting for the story to start. When Circe was banished to Aiaia, I thought "oh finally, the story its picking up", but then I still was left wondering what the point was, why Madeline Miller was writing this story like this, but then it dawned on me. Why are any books written? To tell a story, and this is just Circe's story, so I was happy to kinda go with the flow from that point on. 

    Lots of beautiful quotes are in this novel, and a few small stories about family, monsters, and love, as the doom of someone living forever but being surrounded by mortals, and about motherhood. It was a good short read, but I don't think it's something you absolutely have to have on your shelf. 

:)